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The game isnt F2P. Tuco, the plans for death penalty are having to remake a new character that inherits your assets and standings, with a penalty to the latter. This penalty only happens every x deaths too, not every time. Doesnt sound too punishing to me. Although I guess losing ships is...

They could easily just allow you to reload the settings of the deceased into char creation - anyone that wants to retain their look can do that anyway by going through the same motions. The thing people will hang themselves over is the loss of standings or contacts due to death, which I am fine...

I'm not digging the death system. If I wanted to play a different character I would roll a new one. I plan to complain about it a bit once they finalize (because otherwise what's the internet good for) and then adapt by remaking Creed II, III, IV etc whenever I croak. Lets hope char creation is...

I'm not sure Roberts (or Garriot for that matter) would have been unable to secure funding without going to kickstarter. Consider Roberts asked for half a mill or something, probably as bargaining chip, and intended to drum up publisher interest with that. This whole "take our millions" thing...

Some Ex-Blizzard made bad games, some made good games. Same is true for people that never worked at Blizzard. I'm not sure there is a point hidden here.

I found this thread on SC pretty civil in that regard compared to the drama about Landmark alpha. On the other hand some ribbing doesnt hurt anybody, I threw over hundred $ into Roberts' Porsche pool but I'm not gonna go all fanboy just because of that. I do reserve the right to go all fanboy in...

He's forsaking the corporate pressure of big names like Blizzard and SOE to join McQuaid's team and make his dream game.

He probably has a dollar for every word riding on the game being a huge success.

I'm not certain many of those companies are taking such a long view, but even if they do they're aiming for long term optimal revenue with every dirty trick in the book (duh, I know), not for a good, lasting game. Only a few are aiming for a quality product that speaks for itself.

Put it in black or white for someone that hasnt kept up with the game as much, is this a good or a bad thing?

I havent played AC because "EQ" but GW2 is doing updates every other week. They are mostly shallow busywork though.

I dont know if it was implemented well, I never really grouped because fuck sitting on the Fleet LFG, only played my smuggler to 30 and quit, came back to get to 50 and quit again. Anyway the idea is novel and I hope a Sci-Fi game picks up on it because it would be awkward in the fantasy genre...

On the surface that sounds right and I'm on board because you *assume* it to be like Everquest then. But you can do your entire paragraph there without roamers and a big enough dungeon that respawn is an hour and you never encounter problems due to that. And each room containing exactly one...

I think you are replying to a movie refence there, champ.

Well considering the scope and audience of this project (if it ever gets kickstarted), vastly changing and improving the formula is unlikely to happen. Given this frame I think enough roamers and random spawns to break monotony is as good as it gets. I try to keep my faint hopes for a genre...

Tuco, that'll turn around when they realize that the $250 per ship they bought a dozen of are only worth 20ish hour in the actual game and that they can only fly one at the same time anyway. Or when they realize that the ship they know nearly nothing about when they forked over $100-1000 turns...

Ranged tank in TOR was one of the few interesting new ideas to come out of that mess, but this game seems to be mostly melee opponents so far which would make it less interesting since you end up in melee anyway. Wish they would be a bit less fantasy-inspired and a bit more Sci-Fi tbh. The...

Both sitting in a room camping and clearing through an instance to start over is made more interesting by unexpected things happening. In EQ that was respawns/roamers that you didnt account for maybe because they spawn elsewhere, and trains. In instanced dungeon runs it could still be...

Blanco might just be trolling for the low-hanging fruit in this thread.

GW1, GW2 and soonish Wildstar are probably as better comparison when it comes to combat with a limited skill selection (or again EQ1 casters, while you could switch in combat you didnt do that often). In LoL or DotA you are stuck with the skills your chosen character has, you cannot mix'n'match...

That doesnt prevent making enchanters or wizards. While each class might have less abilities, you can still have a character that has collected a half-dozen on theme classes (Arcanist, Wizard, Thaumaturge, Elementalist etc) to make a wizard. An EQ1 caster type (back then) had 8 spell slots...

This is the unfortunate situation, because WoW did it and it has to be right, plus it's easier to leave out a day/night cycle and it's denial of service anyway so lets put the dev time into 3 more bear ass quests because players love those. But I am not sure Wildstar is the game to break with...

I want enchanters back. If I were a betting man I would give your wish MUCH better odds then mine, Quineloe =x

EVE Online has a permanent persistant world. Star Citizen is going to have permanent persistant characters and assets that are shuffled between various instances. Maybe you dont consider that enough of a difference. I wont get into the comparison to WoW because I dislike the lobby character...

No they said the same about EQN regarding tiers of content and gave some napkin examples about what higher tier items do better instead of being +stats.

They outsource alot of the stuff that doesnt need to be done in-house and adressed that concern (feature bloat) recently. The lastcouple of millions they pulled in throughout this week(lol?) is mostly going into diversifying the ship selection. They're now about 10 mill over the initial goal to...

Drop flail+shield then, cuz I like the idea of a two-handed spear on my hunter type character. Unless there are several ranger style pet classes, which I kinda think because neither spear nor flail satisfy the Drizzt crowd. Cant have animal pet classes without enabling the sword-wielding elf...

Afaik EQN will have 5 tiers, that's far from having 50/60/90 levels. If you translate that by adding a zero and calling it the same thing as people did in August I would say there is no difference. However if someone in tier 2 gear can generally face the challenges of the content of the next...

Cleric better be working like the warrior priest in WAR, armor and hammer included. Keep the pansy healing archetype for the priest and friar subclasses.

From Blizzard's perspective it does make sense. Some people buying HotS will try or retry WoW for a month and possibly get hooked, they need subs for the quarterly report.

Did the same and then last week upgraded to "collectors edition" price level because I wanted a pirate camo (and ship), Yarr! I hope it gives a better space sim vibe then EVE, especially since you have a person you can do boarding with and stuff, not just a ship. I did read you can basically...

What I mean is I would enjoy hub-based quest games a bit more if there was more optional story/content on the side that I could do without facerolling through it. All the questing zones I didnt use to level are on that list of additional content, but they are pointless and dead boring because...

Confirming that Ever, Jane has alot of features "this crowd" is looking for but you ignore because you cling to your pre-conceived genre expectations. In other news,

I have alot of qualms with the direction GW2 is taking but that you can do content anywhere in the world without it being a total faceroll is a very good innovation. I played 10 day free WoW recently and was already missing that when I went into some low level zones (granted same level zones in...

The graphics dont matter argument is touted way more then its actually true. End of the day they do matter, even if some here are an exception to that statement.

WoW is spending alot of programming effort on masking that fact though, even Blizzard is scared of the negative publicity and subscriber impression associated with it. I do hope they have some nifty new ideas for Wildstar beyond "launch more servers" if the game brings in more players then they...

Push forward doesnt mean it has to be exactly the same direction that the last decade pushed towards, this game definitely needs to move forward at a a different angle. For example to get me interested McQuaid would have to emphasize the "immersion in a fantasy world" aspect which probably means...

On the upside she looks much better then her rendition on that Parkinson homage art. Reverse beer goggle effect?

I think that's the chat in every 'other' MMO but WoW since 2005 though, certainly was in GW2 and TOR when they released.

The thing I'm hoping for is that this game is really made out of a passion for it and without corporation/investor interest influencing the direction it takes. As long as all the money from this goes back into the game and the Ferrari fond for Mr Roberts I'm kinda fine with it. Beats financing 8...